Bob McDonnell Quotes
Today, the Federal Government is simply trying to do too much.
Bob McDonnell, Governor of Virginia (Republican, VA) Republican Response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, January 27, 2010
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His political view was one of general opposition to Government—especially large Government. However, even the Conservative voters whose nomination he sought did not elect him to any public position. His inherited fortune allowed him to run for office and campaign.
On June 12, 1789 a Senate committee proposed a federal court system for the nation. Maclay described it as:
On February 11, 1790 American Quakers submitted a petition to immediately abolish the African slave trade from America. Southerners like Jackson argued that the Congress should not even “consider” such a petition or debate such as subject for if it did, that per se, would imply the possible consideration of emancipation, and if that were possible, they would be on the slippery slope toward emancipation of existing slaves which would be the end of the world as the Southern whites then knew it.
Most people are surprised that this quotation was from Roosevelt who has for decades been castigated by the right wing as an advocate of large, complex government. He was an advocate for eliminating ineffective programs and trying others until there was success. See {631419}. Also, his most successful programs like Social Security were very simple and not complex. The public could understand them.
Theodore Roosevelt and Taft were both strong advocates of an expanded Federal government much to the distress of the conservative wing of their Republican party. However, they also had strong public support for expanding the size and scope of the national government. It was not the left wing socialists who expanded the Federal government. It was the Republican administrations with a Republican control of both houses of Congress.
The 10th Amendment reserves powers to the states and limits the Federal Government’s powers. However, there are other clauses in the Constitution, like the Commerce Clause (Article I Section 8), which gives the Federal Government authority and control over Interstate Commerce, which in modern society permeates almost all activities of State government, The result is that the federal government / state government power division has been a political issue and not really a constitutional one. At the time Republicans advocated a literal 10th Amendment interpretation and the Democrats favored a stronger Federal Government with more authority and power as stated by the Commerce Clause. Roy had been trying to explain to his fellow Republican strategists that it is hard to attract Blacks to the remainder to the Republican Platform as long as they were insensitive to what the 10th Amendment meant to Blacks historically. The Southern states cited the 10th Amendment more than any other part of the constitution to justify their right to maintain slavery. It was the Federal Government that ended slavery. Under the rubric of the 10th Amendment the South managed to get rid of most of the racial civil rights Reconstruction reforms that were imposed by the Federal Government on the Southern States. And it was the 19th Amendment that was the authority for Segregation for 100 years. And the terrorism of the Klu Klux Klan and the lynching and terror imposed on Blacks by Southern states claiming the 10th Amendment right to do so. Finally, it was the Federal Government, overriding the 10th Amendment with the Commerce Clause and other parts of the Constitution that passed and enforced the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Desegregation and the end to Lynching and other Southern State-Sponsored terrorism. Blacks will not any time soon accede to having the 10th Amendment literal view of the role of government and if Republicans insist on that there would continue to be very few Black Republicans,
Robert Francis McDonnell is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. A member of the Republican Party, McDonnell also served on the executive committee of the Republican Governors Association. McDonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006, and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2006 to 2009.
